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Well, first off, I know this is a ski building site, but I hoped I could slip through with a snowboard

The background story is me and two friends building two (not three, since one of them do not snowboard) snowboards in school. This far all we really done is taking a look at the graphics, and mate a blueprint for the board. It gonna be 154cm long and about 30cm wide.

Soon we're gonna start off with building a mould, and after that the wooden core, hopefully we'll have it done til' may or something like that.

The theme I chosen for my board is scarface, and I thought I show you my sketches of what I think it will look like, any comments are welcome.

Now the mould starting to get it shape as seen on images below.




The shape of the whole thing


Doing some afterwork

Soon after we fisnishing the afterwork on the wood we will put some polystyrene on the mould too. Just waiting to get the materials to get started with printing the graphics =)

what are the dimensions of your board? you said something about 30cm wide. and how do you press your boards? the molds look extremely wide on the pictures, but they look promising! i`m looking forward to read about your work

Yeah the widest part is 30cm and it's 153 long.
We do this as a project in school so we have access to a big fat press that can give us many tons of pressure =) I'll see if i can get any photos of it soon!
The mould is actually not that wide, about 35-40cm, but not that thick, so we're thinking of maybe reinforcing top and bottom a bit.

An photoupdate with some new and old photos


The raw material of our mould


We made the mould in two halves that we glued together






Alex and Oscar showing up themselves and the shape of our mould


Getting help planning the top and bottom side of our mould


The press we will be using


Sawing out some polystyrene to glue onto the mould


The final product, looking good?

nice work! so you`re pressing with a top and a down-mold?
what`s the deal with the polystyrene?

Yep, we thought that would be the best way for us =)
The polysterene is there to even out the pressure over the whole board, if the wood isn't even enough.

An small update


Part two of the graphics printed on 8 overhead-papers to make an big (160x50cm) screenprint, currently working on the blood, pictures comes soon



Once again getting help from a teacher to plan out the wooden core to 6mm all over



The wooden core roughly cut out, made a quarter piece of the shape and makes the shape after that



The final shape of the core



Going for a cap construction, so the cores wall got an angle (roughly 30-40degrees)

No pics this update, just a little thingie to tell how things are going.
We were going to press today, but just before starting the lay-up, a steel-edge got loose, so we have the bend it a little and glue it again. Hopefully try again on monday

Almost done now! Im on the bord with P3000 sandpaper and polishingwax, and it takes a huge amount of time to get the real shine! But this is what it looks like for the moment =) Sorry for lack of quality, mobile phone.

Looks great,

Can you tell us some more about the paint/color you have been using for your silkscreen printing?

A picture of the silkscreen would be great as well.

Geoff

Thanks =)

The color used is a standard waterproof fabric color.

And a pic of Alex posing with the three silkscreens

Did you glue in the silk screen into the wooden frame to keep the tension in it or how did you do it?

Geoff

First we wetted out the fabric before we used tacks to fasten it to the wooden frame. When the fabric dryed it shrunk a bit and raised the tension.

very cool. love the screenprinting, did you screen the topsheet before layup, or the finished board? how did the foam on the molds end up
working out? is the flex close to what you were shooting for? great work.